From Federal Times
By Rick Maze

The surprise announcement that an informant turned over stolen computer equipment containing personal information on about 28.7 million military members and veterans to the FBI has not ended the controversy over data security at the Veterans Affairs Department.

VA Secretary James Nicholson announced June 29 that a laptop and data storage devices stolen in a May 3 robbery from the Maryland home of a VA employee had been recovered, with indications that the personnel records had not been copied or compromised.
But just minutes later, Nicholson admitted to the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee that other unannounced instances of missing personal data have cropped up recently.
In May, for example, a backup disk containing legal records of about 16,538 veterans was found missing in Indianapolis. And last year in Minneapolis, a computer containing personal information on about 60 veterans was stolen from the trunk of a rental car.

In both cases, veterans whose information is missing and possibly compromised are being individually informed, Nicholson said.

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